RII Track-2 FEC - Advanced Manufacturing of Renewable and Recyclable Polymers

RII Track-2 FEC - 可再生和可回收聚合物的先进制造

• 批准号: 2119754
• 负责人: Bala Subramaniam
• 金额: $ 400万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2119754&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RII; Track; FEC; Advanced; Manufacturing

Millions of tons of plastic waste pollute the environment with adverse ecological and health impacts. New technologies are urgently needed to facilitate plastic recycling and enable the growth of a circular and sustainable economy. Such a transition requires technological innovation and public policies that enable the reuse of used polymers in new products, as well as renewable raw materials such as grasses and crop leftovers. In this project, researchers from the University of Kansas (KU), University of Delaware (UD), and Pittsburg State University (PSU) will use their complementary expertise to develop the knowledge to foster this transition. The team aims to develop novel catalysts and processes to (a) transform biomass feedstocks into commercially relevant plastic materials, and (b) deconstruct recycled plastics efficiently into precursors for reuse. Simulations, data science, techno-economic analyses and life cycle assessments will guide the research. Concurrently, public policies will be formulated and evaluated to drive rural economic growth and the market penetration of the new materials. Such activities will spawn an agro-based, renewable materials manufacturing industry in Kansas, Delaware and beyond, providing a major economic boost in these two EPSCoR jurisdictions. The program will mentor junior faculty and establish a Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity to support women and underrepresented minorities in this career path. Additionally, we will recruit and educate a diverse workforce equipped with the skills needed to use advanced manufacturing concepts to drive our economy towards sustainability.Specifically, the project will develop novel synthesis routes for a broad slate of renewable polyesters and polymer recycling strategies, signaling a new benign by design paradigm for the advanced manufacturing of sustainable materials. The program will focus on three renewable monomers: 4,4'-biphenyl-dicarboxylic acid, 5,5'-bifurandicarboxylic acid, and sebacic acid. These were selected because they can be synthesized from biomass-derived furfural. Since recycling will involve renewable and fossil-based plastics for the foreseeable future, the project will evaluate and optimize copolymers of these renewable monomers with the existing poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) plastic. The convergent research expertise of our team of investigators will enable integration of catalysis and kinetics fundamentals with separations and process intensification strategies to develop scalable manufacturing and recycling concepts. Novel catalytic materials including biocatalysts, intensified spray and microwave reactors, and new fundamental knowledge underlying the synthesis and recycling of polymers will emerge. A framework for analyzing cradle-to-cradle process systems blended with sustainability principles, economics and public policy considerations will be developed. We will deploy and advance state-of-the-art data science methods and multiscale modeling to expedite discovery and innovation of renewable and recyclable biobased polymers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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项目成果

Multifeedstock and Multiproduct Process Design Using Neural Network Surrogate Flexibility Constraints

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c02968
• 发表时间: 2023-01-16
• 期刊: INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Luo, Yuqing;Ierapetritou, Marianthi
• 通讯作者: Ierapetritou, Marianthi

Comparison of 4,4′-Dimethylbiphenyl from Biomass-Derived Furfural and Oil-Based Resource: Technoeconomic Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c00398
• 发表时间: 2022-06
• 期刊: Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
• 作者: Yuqing Luo;M. Kuo;M.-D. Ye;Raul Lobo;M. Ierapetritou

Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Analyses of Thermochemical Upcycling Technologies of Low-Density Polyethylene Waste

低密度聚乙烯废料热化学升级回收技术的技术经济和生命周期分析

• DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c00636
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
• 影响因子: 8.4
• 作者: Hernández, Borja;Kots, Pavel;Selvam, Esun;Vlachos, Dionisios G.;Ierapetritou, Marianthi G.
• 通讯作者: Ierapetritou, Marianthi G.

Economic and Environmental Benefits of Modular Microwave-Assisted Polyethylene Terephthalate Depolymerization

• DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c07203
• 发表时间: 2023-02-23
• 期刊: ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
• 影响因子: 8.4
• 作者: Luo, Yuqing;Selvam, Esun;Ierapetritou, Marianthi
• 通讯作者: Ierapetritou, Marianthi

Biphenyl dicarboxylates from ethene and bifuran dimethyl esters

由乙烯和联呋喃二甲酯制得的联苯二甲酸

• DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2023.112949
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Molecular Catalysis
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Ye, Mingchun;Kuo, Mi Jen;Lobo, Raul F.
• 通讯作者: Lobo, Raul F.